The Grenville Phillips Column – Judgement Day

Today’s weekly article is in response to recent questions about my motives for founding Solutions Barbados. I believe that everyone’s actions attract consequences. This belief is based on Jesus’ promise that He will reward us for the beneficial consequences of our responsible actions, and judge us for the harmful consequences of our irresponsible actions. Part of this judgement follows.

“Then He (Jesus) will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt 25:41-46)

In my youth, Jesus’ warning was motivation enough for me to try to avoid doing the wrong, and actively do the right. As I accepted responsibilities that impacted others, I intentionally designed plans with the main criterion of not causing harm, for the same reason.

I believe that there is a separate judgement for politicians who oppress others. This belief is based on the description of their judgement recorded in Enoch.

“And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth shall fall down before Him on their faces, and worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man, and petition Him and supplicate for mercy at His hands.”

“Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them that they shall hastily go forth from His presence, and their faces shall be filled with shame, and the darkness grow deeper on their faces. And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment, to execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect.” (Enoch 62: 9-11)

Since people can be oppressed through economic measures that leave them homeless, hungry, or imprisoned, I had no intention of attracting judgement to myself by mismanaging Barbados’ economy. There seems to be a special place in hell reserved for politicians whose policies harm others, and I was determined to avoid that place.

“Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It stirs-up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. They all shall speak and say to you: ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? (Isa 14:9-10)

I did not have good examples to follow. Both the BLP and DLP appear to have generally pursued the same 5-point economic strategy of: raising taxes, laying-off the supporters of the other party, employing their own supporters, giving donors corrupting no-bid contracts, and placing the country further in debt.

Both parties were aware that their strategy was not sustainable and would eventually ruin Barbados’ economy. However, they would not change their ways. With only 2 main political parties, our democracy forced them to play a game of musical chairs. Each of them desperately hoped that they would not be seated when the music stopped, and oppressive policies would be required.

To avoid the foreseen mass suffering, we designed an economic recovery plan that provided over $1B surplus revenues within our first year, without raising taxes, without laying off any public workers or reducing their salaries, and without any external borrowing. We achieved this by growing the national economy, improving the management of public services, generally reducing taxes, and effectively addressing corruption.

I tried sharing it with the last administration. However, in response to various armchair advisors at that time, former Prime Minister Stuart gave the criterion of being willing to be judged as a politician, as the qualification for reviewing economic advice. To qualify, we started Solutions Barbados on 1 July 2015 and published our entire plan for public scrutiny the same day.

During the last general election, DLP evidently did their best to avoid the seat when the music stopped. However, the BLP convinced the electorate that they had examined all plans, and that theirs was the best. The public believed them. Now we know that this was not true.

Dr Greenidge of BERT, recently publicly admitted that they did not look at any of the non-austerity plans when developing their severe austerity plan. When I asked whether they would now look at our plan to spare the public any further suffering, there was a resounding no.

To date, the media have decided not to report these critical public admissions. Instead, they have taken the politically partisan decision to promote severe austerity as the only solution. Solutions Barbados continues to exist because the non-austerity solution is still workable, despite the IMF agreement.

If severe austerity was the only solution, then I would join the news media in promoting it. But I know better. The suffering that many have endured under BERT Phase 1, and are about to endure under BERT Phases 2 to 4, is entirely unnecessary. It is still possible to meet the IMF targets without the planned austerity.

Our plan was independently verified as workable without the need for austerity. However, the national associations, whom we approached to also review it, appeared too invested in having the BLP govern, that they provided ridiculous reasons for not reviewing our plan, and not allowing us anywhere near their members.

If any action that I am a part of is found to be oppressive, then I would seeking the public’s assistance for an alternative. If after public consultation oppression was found to be unavoidable, then I would be prepared to make that my defence on judgement day.

None of the Solutions Barbados policies are oppressive, and either Party can implement them. All Members of Parliament are responsible for implementing the best plans for Barbados, regardless of which Party developed them. Before the implementation of BERT Phase 2, all Members of Parliament are well-advised to examine our plan, if for no other reason than to save themselves from an undesirable destiny.

Grenville Phillips II is a Chartered Structural Engineer and President of Solutions Barbados. He can be reached at NextParty246@gmail.com

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Ya should check the shite you post and see what mundane and useless looks like, some could only see others but are blind to themselves…and their own nonsense, everyone believes they are genius writers until ya read their crap…

suffice it to say, the goal…for those who are AWAKE and actually participated and not too busy climbing over each other in crab style……has been reached…everything else going forward is gravy…..which has null and voided anything crabs have to say.

@ David
“The energy some of you (anonymous people) expend to abuse each other makes you no better than the politicians et al you are critical.”

The above is at least three years late but better late than never! The same people complaining now , were the main daily abusers. You were told repeatedly that they were doing nothing more than inhibiting proper dignified discussion. In many ways you were a willing accomplice; often referring to others as “RH” and “JA”.
Only one contributor was treated to respect by a regular, who believed or at least wanted to prove that he was on the same intellectual level.
Any how your comment is welcomed but the horse already out of the stable.
Never teach your dog to suck your neighbour’s eggs because he will eventually suck yours…….

“Just for the record. This person is a proven fabricator who is obviously in need of help. I received an unsolicited email from this person making allegations against a local insurance company. I asked for the proof, which I have not received, and since then I have been a target of his/her venom, including the fabrication of a cut-and-paste email making further allegations.”

The more i think about Mia Maloney deal
The more i come to the conclusion that she sold a piece of gold for nothing valuable in return
Nothing more than a short term return like a prostitute who belives that a short gain would serve a purpose to satisfy debt collectors

This blog is jampacked with some demons eh. Who financed all the infrastructure at Coverley–roads, new roundabout, utilities, drainage? Not Maloney? If the valuation was in fact $9M and government got $13.5M that is good business under the circumstances rather than collect $0 while Maloney rented them to RUSM. Note I said RENT to RUSM, therefore what students are paying to RUSM is unlikely to be what Maloney is receiving from RUSM. That $13.5M is the equivalent to what government would receive from the sale of 675 houses. How many houses sell at the Villages since inception? Nuff birds get licked down with that one rockstone. Yet we have a jackass here talking about FV of land as if the land isn’t sold with the units. Yuh mean when I buy muh house up in Coverley govt still gine own the land? Not to mention, they had no problem with the units’ unsuitability for low income earners in terms of cost and constraints to expansion. The Grotto is low income?#notevenjesusable

The BLP yardfowl got one thing right! I WAS a supporter though not ever a member of the DLP. Until my faith started to waver after David Thompson’s first budget address, which lacking in substance and totally deflating. Nothing they did after that improved my opinion. And then came CLICO! Still, I was unable to forget the numerous scandals of the former BLP government, the prison and the Barrack building being the worst of the lot. The lesser of the two evils, I thought, was still the DLP. And so in 2013 I reluctantly placed my ‘X” for the DLP at 5.45 p.m. And they promptly set about proving me wrong with CahIll, the Four Seasons and numerous scandals and the UNAPOLOGETIC on recent promises such as tuition fees at the UWI and callous layoffs without mercy or compensation.

And then there was the Speaker and the Prime Minister’s utterances that clearly showed his allegiance to his friends rather than to justice. And then there was the talk of a “POLITICAL CLASS” seeming to separate them from the general population – UNACCEPTABLE!

And the ARROGANCE that far exceeded anything ever heard from the mouth of Owen and company!.

Now, you speak of FACTS. I rely on Artax to remind me of those. I am one who believes in ATTITUDE. Attitude determines actions. And language reveals attitude. It is inevitable that something will slip that tells the discerning who we are. Usually I can determine what actions are going to taken based on attitude. The first sign of the DLP’s bad attitude was when they informed Bajans that they were elected to govern and had ALL THE BRAINS THEY NEEDED TO DO SO! They needed nobody to tell them anything! We the people should sit down and shut up!. Then there was Ronald Jones talking about “cracking some heads”. There was the PM and his “It is affecting me too.” There was the Donville classic – “They will only lose some weight.”

And so I joined the multitudes on BU lambasting the DLP and was promptly cussed by AC as a BLP yardfowl. I expressed my intention to vote BLP as there seemed no other option. I did so at 5.45 p.m. as I was not enthusiastic about my choice. But I did so.

And now at the first sign of disagreement here comes the Lorenzo rooster and calling me a DLP yard fowl!

Which is it! Am I a DLP yardfowl or a BLP yardfowl?

And ALL I did was express the opinion that Mia’s shiting of her father showed a bad entitlement attitude and revealed where her priorities lie.

This apparently is “lies, misinformation, gossip” besmirching the pristine character of the prime minister.

No it is NOT. It is an OPINION.

Do you and your party wish to deprive me even of that???!!!! Do you wish to crack my head too? Is this the equivalent of inciting a riot? How is this “destabilizing” the country???????

You are quite frightening! But not frightening enough.

Lorenzo of the Barnyard breed,

You speak highly of Artax because you are AFRAID OF HIS FACTS. That will not stop him because unlike you he is a free bird.

P.S. You really should ask the same Artax what he thinks of my impartiality. He’s already told me.

The government right to get out of that onerous Coverley arrangement. Let Ross and Maloney battle um out. I hope RUSM has secured a water tight contract on maintenance etc. Another win fuh the government. Y’all mad….stay mad!😂😂

are you absolutely SURE…that it was not built with money STOLEN…from the pension fund and treasury tapped into by Maloney’s masters, COW, Bizzy, Bjerkham…ETC…and the clowns who infest the parliament and bar association…aka Cow and Bizzy’s little black boys and girls….after all…they had their little boy Robinson in the NIS to facilitate a fake loan for hundreds of millions of dollars to Apes Hill which built another project…in St. James.

…ya can guarantee Maloney did not spend a cent of his own money….not even for the recent purchase of the property…he got the whole thing for free…cause the crabs were not paying attention, too busy climbing over each other….while the crabs in parliament…got their cut..

I read in today’s Weekend Nation that Joseph Atherley is about to form a new political party and “it is believed that some of losing candidates from UPP and Solutions Barbados are among those being solicited or showing an interest in the new party.”

It seems like a good retrieval by the government compared to the empty arrangement that was in position under incompetents. We wait on the Hyatt deal to be similarly completed. The negotiating parties will be the same!

A worker for my mum has just told me of a story involving the sibling of a high profile Bajan who was working in an institution that dealt with money. Apparently this individual was allegedly secreting funds from peoples’ accounts. I was informed that the individual was given a custodial sentence and left the country on their release. Could someone please confirm if this story is fake news.

Talking Loud…we discussed this on BU…years now, if ya talking about the theft of money from Mr. Butcher’s account ..as well as others…at CIBC..I think it was, yes it was Maloney’s brother, but he helps run another Cow/Bizzy/Bjerkham company right next to Preconco…..that is how they both got their start, with Maloney pretending he is the overseer and slave master over black people, just as ya rotten, nasty leaders like…

we already beat the story to death and he keeps his ASS real quiet…for more than one reason…old..

Thanks for you observation. its a pity that you, in all your brilliance, could not do the calculation correctly and come up with the correct figure and let john public know.

Seem like I am not the only dumb one in here
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I was not trying to mislead anyone the 450 million seemed a bit steep to me and I was in bed preparing to go to sleep.
That is the reason I put “using your figures” at the bottom of my calculations

450M seem way to much for Maloney and also for Government at the time with out getting some sort of external loan.

The correct figure is 150 000 000
I just forgot to divide the 36 000 000 by the 12 months.

The more i think about Mia Maloney deal
The more i come to the conclusion that she sold a piece of gold for nothing valuable in return
Nothing more than a short term return like a prostitute who belives that a short gain would serve a purpose to satisfy debt collectors

FROM THE ONE WHO AGREED WITH THE SALE OF THE HILTON FOR UNDER ITS VALUE TO SHORT TERM GAINS OF US$ TO HELP PAY EXTERNAL DEBT!

BTW..Mia was talking out against the Maloney/Coverley project since 2010..the info is online… when she said she did the math and realized that Maloney would make one billion dollars…….. from the scam he and Lashley colluded in against the people, while the treasury got nothing…

I noticed that Georgie Porgie has switched his allegiance to Barbados Today. I recognised his writing style under a different moniker discussing a Ross Medical article. Come on David surely there must be a place on this blog for the flamboyant Georgie Porgie.

I had a chance to visit some of the cricket during the first two days of the England tour. It’s not looking good boys. We are going to lose within either three or three and a half days. Never mind.

Mottley actions can be describe as one of being a prostitute
She complains about the sale of a nonperforming assets that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars to keep up and running
Then sells land which wad costing the govt or taxpayers nothing for short term gain
Go figure a.hole

Of course there is a place for G.P. When he is as serious as he probably was on Barbados Today. There is also room for the occasional mocking. But GP needs to let go of some things. I kindda like him even though he occasionally calls me a moron and Bible illiterate.

What turn around in relation to Maloney? Maloney had a lease for the land from government and therefore entered into talks with RUSM. Government facilitated the relocation of RUSM, which brings investment, foreign exchange, local spend etc, etc PLUS $13.5M in cash. Go and wash the broadcast of the tour and listen to what MAM said in relation to Maloney. You wanted her to say no to RUSM at Coverley?

“She complains about the sale of a nonperforming assets that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars to keep up and running..”

Hmmmmm……….

You have a habit of keeping nonfactual information in your head, although time and time again that information has proven to be incorrect and misleading.

Each time you make a comment such as the one above, it’s usually a reference to BNTCL and the Barbados Hilton Hotel.

WITHOUT your usual political rhetoric and generalized statements………

……….could you please PRESENT any evidence……..including financial statements…… to prove the BNTCL and Hilton were “nonperforming assets”…….

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According to information received from usually reliable sources, when the former Minister of Housing, Michael Lashley signed the Coverley lease contract, included therein was clause for the leasing of 220,000 square feet at Coverley, Christ duration of time.

WITHOUT your usual political rhetoric and generalized statements…….

………and taking this information into consideration, would you please explain your comment as follows:

“Then sells land which was costing the govt or taxpayers nothing for short term gain…”

For the “doubting Thomases” and those who would prefer to make jackasses of themselves rather than admit when they are wrong……and issue vile threats to other BU contributors……..

Also contained in the Coverley lease contract is a clause which allowed the developers to have APPROVAL on any construction projects……….. unless refusal came within 30 days of the writing of the application.

**********According to information received from usually reliable sources, when the former Minister of Housing, Michael Lashley signed the Coverley lease contract, included therein was a clause for the leasing of 220,000 sq ft of land at Coverley, Christ Church…….. at $100 a year for 99 years, which meant taxpayers having to pay rent arrears to Coverley developers for that duration of time.

That is the plight and blight of the bible enslaved when they cannot get to brainwash others and have them just as bible enslaved as themselves…lol

“Owen Arthur has to disclose his files”

ah..and what a tale those files will tell…but just like Mia…Owen has proven that he CANNOT be trusted…

that is what happens when ya appoint yaself separate, BETTER THAN and distinct from the very people who not only educated ya poor ass …but also elected ya…cause at the end of the day, all the lawyers, politicians, ministers, senators even the cows, bizzy’s, M\maloneys etc started out the same way….. a bunch of poor ass, broke ass people and would have remained that way, except for the black sell outs in parliament and in the bar…, no matter all the pretence and arrogance….

Nineofnine, I told you that a man not subjected law whether moral or civil is governed by his own will… and as human beings we need an universal moral understanding, or else our concept of right and wrong becomes relative…

I respect your opinion but I think that it is incorrect regarding me, but that is just my own opinion…, nonetheless, in a world where there is no moral law to guide one’s action I don’t see how love and compassion is going to force a man to respect you boundaries?

yeah…don’t worrry, ya such a small fish, not worth the bother……we got much bigger fish to fry….small by international standards…but big, stink small island fish nonetheless…because they swim in a small pond..

Forgive me, but I listened to your video. You sound like a very angry woman and one who seriously needs help in this situation. However, do you honestly believe by begging openly for someone to help you, that you will get someone bold enough to remove those you claim have illegally taken over your mothers property? If they are building, it means that they have obtained the ”legal” rights to do so after either acquiring or obtaining the land by some ”default” legal or illegal basis that you are powerless to overcome. This is not a matter that is going to be handled properly by the number of videos you post. Others who have suffered the same fate as you under the name lawyers need to come forth with their documentation. There must be a pooling of what little resources they might still have at their disposal and seek to bring this matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice. Jackie right now your best bet is using the CCJ. They are fully aware of Barbados atrocious legal system and the purposely set delays in order for justice to favour their particular nefarious script. RIght now the CCJ and Barbados are not the best of friends because were true justice is meted, the Barbados legal system is not accustomed to rulings that are base on what was right or what was wrong. Wrong is so right in the eyes of our legal system that it has many accepting it as a commonality in the normal scheme of things. That is my piece of advice to you. Lord I would love these brutes to mess wid my family property, but then again, they would never!!

Regardless of who is in power, there is a transfer of wealth to one group of people. The benefits of the transfer may not be immediately obvious, but time will show that one man and his silent partners benefited.
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What is disappointing, is the party in power always have a few (who will not see one penny from any transaction) take a strong position and attack others who do not agree. Meanwhile, the same set of people laughing on their way to the bank.

@GP ll, several of us warned you about one mannism as the leader of Solutions Barbados, but you were too own way, so most of the prominent members of Solutions gone with Joe Atherley. Now that you no longer have a real-real party you might as well stop wasting BU and Barbados Today’s time publishing your weekly offerings.

I read somewhere in some paper that Mia spoke about the debt the DLP accumulated (with nothing to show) and decided to put some legislation in place that will make politicians, not those in the past, call to account. So you see this piece of Rogue-Works. The woman can talk about the millions that Maloney got from the crooked DLP and then in the next breath, her sole duty is to stop such dark dealings with a bit of rule. No investigating what those crooks did with the money just a move for the future. ROGUE-WORKS

SSS>>>and that is just another reason that Mia cannot be trusted…she refuses to stop disrespecting the people who elected her and insulting their intelligence….while protecting her tiefing DLP, current ministers who rob the elderly and her criminal minority friends…because don’t care how ya cut it…that is what she is doing….no matter how she pretends otherwise…it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

You do not have to persuade me about this rogue. The moment she knighted her father and write off taxes owed, two acts that are major in less than 8 months, the plot was clear. I let the changing of the constitution slide to give her a chance to get the best people. It so happen that the best people are getting the best monetary rewards from the Mottley changes, while she takes a cutlass to the little people whom she plunged into suffering and despair. Meanwhile, all the crooks from the DLP have been pardoned by PM Rogue- Works. Even Dale and George got a pardon as well, Hinckson, unfortunately, had no idea what was coming his way. Poor fella, you think George forget wunna encounter. Rogue-works cannot touch George. The pieces are set, the players are moving, Rogue-Works at the controls, more to come.

Grenville Phillips never really wanted to be an alternative government

This was all a scam to assist his BLP bosses in identifying who the opposition is AND WHO THE DISSIDENT ELECTORATE IS

He has never been a serious contender in this fight against corruption and political gluttony

In fact, his acceptance of MUGABE contracts show his price.

Note how he was lying about protecting their identities YET IN 2019 FOUR EFFENG YEARS BEFORE A GENERAL ELECTION, the same people this Liar claimed needed their identities protected, HAVE DECLARED THEMSELVES.

Maybe as he says de ole man is a child BUT IT SHOULD BE EVIDENT TO YOU AND OTHER ADULTS HERE, that Grenville is the real child AND PUERILE LIAR TO BOOT

” New rules, hefty fines, and a shift in some responsibilities are some of the new measures included in the new Planning and Development Bill 2018.”

” Anyone found guilty of directly or indirectly soliciting or accepting financial or other award or those found guilty of offering such bribes are guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $250,000 or imprisonment for two years, or both. Members of the board or the tribunal who fail to disclose any conflict of interest could find themselves paying a fine of $100,000.”